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Through hours of videotape, Aaron Herskowitz’s son Howard captured the horror and triumph of his father’s extraordinary life during and after World War II. A gifted storyteller who frequently impersonated his captors and friends, Aaron Herskowitz’s genuine and captivating delivery, modest personality and the telling of both heroic and horrific acts enraptures his audience. Much of the filming was done during a family trip, when Aaron was 75 years old, to Eastern Europe and Bilke, the site of Aaron’s family farm. In these clips, Aaron describes his survival and the deep questioning of his faith. In a pivotal scene, Aaron wonders how his friend Sax became a monster of revenge. He recounts the killing of a Nazi soldier who’d planned to murder

him; Aaron denounces the rabbis who failed their people; finally, he illustrates his survival during the Russian bombings that wiped out his comrades and captors. From these videos, plus interviews and historical research, Howard Herskowitz wrote his father’s story.

The video, "We Had Too Much Power!"tells the story of Aaron as the master of Geryen, a captured Nazi town, in 1944. He had virtually unlimited power as the Russian-sponsored ruler, and he, along with his 2nd in command, his friend Ignatz Sax took their revenge. But Sax goes too far, brutally torturing German or Hungarian soldiers and spies they capture. Aaron recedes from his own violence, but Sax refuses to end his brutality.

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"Why did God abandon the Jews?" In one of the most emotional passages of the story, Aaron condemns those orthodox rabbis of Europe, who quashed his efforts to resist, and refused immigration to Palestine. After a Russian bombing of the Axis positions which massacred nearly all his fellow Jewish slaves, Aaron gave up on God, just as God had given up on the Jews.

In "It's Time For a Kill!" Aaron knows he must take action, after surreptitiously overhearing a Nazi SS officer confide to a comrade about Aaron: "That Jew has been getting fat enough, it’s time for a kill!" The Nazis didn't realize that Aaron understood German.

“Escape from the Nazis and Hungarians.” In a classic exciting adventure, Aaron realizes he has no choice but to escape from his Nazi captors and join the Russian Army.

“Escape from the Russians.” Aaron and his friend Sax are taken from their headquarters by a squad of Russian secret police. Aaron turns down the Soviet offer to be “promoted” to spy for Russia. As a result, Aaron and Sax are immediately arrested and accused of being German spies. How does Aaron overcome this impossible new predicament?